Aspies: Slow Reading Speed?

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Answer the Poll with the reading speed that you can retain information with perfectly!

I read *horribly* slowly (a bit slower than I talk if I'm really trying to take something in).
I have a voice in my head that has to read the words internally, so at best my reading speed
is capped at the speed of someone talking fast (when I'm practically skimming).
I wonder if others here are similar or if I just suuuck ^__^

NTs can answer as well via post, just not in my poll thingy (you'll taint the results! :p).

I read very quickly, to the point that I have beaten NTs using speed-reading techniques by just reading my normal way. My information retention is high, but not perfect, so I do on occasion have to re-read segments of a text. This gets especially pronounced when I'm tired.

Very slow. But what makes it all the more embarrassing is my reading comprehension is diabolical. I NEVER remember anything I read.

Voted slow. If I'm working with a text, not "just reading" it, and trying to remember the info long-term, I will have to read it slowly and multiple times.
In school I was often the slowest to finish reading.

I "can" read faster than I think, it's just that I don't trust it at all. I tend to mentally doze off and get distracted when I read fast. The best application for this might be reading short newspaper articles.

I read slowly.

i read and write very quickly, ever since I was a kid. I was always one of the fastest readers in class. My comprehension is very good as well. As i type, I am typing about as quickly as i can put the words together.

But...speech is horribly awkward for me at times and when i am overwhelmed with life, i often fantasize about not speaking at all. If it weren't for my kids, i might not. My hubby could learn to communicate with me without speech--maybe it would be his dream come true too.

I also used to dream about this as a child--just living in mostly my world and not talking to others. It is hard to translate my thoughts into spoken words. Unless it is a pre-scripted conversation of small talk, there is quite a process to get my thoughts into speech and i often get wrong words or disjointed thoughts that i realize are a very poor translation of what i am thinking. The older i get, the worse it gets.

My daughter is a very fast reader, much as i was as a child. My oldest son is very slow at reading with poor comprehension. He has dyslexia, never diagnosed with ASD but has many of the tendencies.

I can read incredibly quickly and retain the information for a short time, but that was more useful in elementary school when the books we read in school were very short. When I read actual books, I have to slow down a bit because NVLD can make it hard to comprehend the story if I'm going too quickly. There were several instances in elementary school when teachers didn't believe me when I said I'd finished the story, so they would quiz me on it. I would always get their questions correct and leave them stunned. It was fun.

I read fast, but I don't like reading.

Im in my 70s, and back when I was an elementary student, they used to calculate your IQ by what grade you are in divided into the grade level that you were actually reading on. My mother taught my sister and me to read very young, and surrounded us with books, encyclopedias, Book House books, and artist monographs, so when I got to first grade, I was reading very well. It intrigued my teachers, and when I was in the third grade I was going to a school that was run by University of Arkansas Education department. They had a reading lab, and the teachers had me in there often. They had speed reading machines that pushed you to read faster and faster, and then they would give me comprehension exams. I think records from those days followed me right into university.

I read incredibly fast, I talk incredibly slow (my 5th grade teacher told my parents he had to slow down his thinking to keep up with the way I spoke), I need people to speak a little more slowly to me than they normally do (or else I ask them to repeat themselves many times), and I have to focus very hard to follow verbal instructions. If things are written down for me I always do better that way.

I read in my head ridiculously quickly. Usually I read 1 page in the same time most other people read 4+ pages. I read out loud much slower though.

I read slow. When my sister and I read a new book she insists she read it first because I read so slow.

I read slowly and I've been diagnosed as having slow reading and processing speeds.

I have Irlen's Syndrome which is part of why I have a slow reading speed. My brain can't process some wavelengths of light, so letters appear to move around on the page and appear distorted. Using a colored overlay makes the letters stand still and improved my reading speed. I can also skim through text when I use the overlay which I used to be unable to do.

Having a co-morbid learning disability is pretty common for people with Aspergers and autism.

I think that I read faster than I talk, but I talk faster (at least in my native tongue) than an average NT person. I type faster than I write. I speak English and Esperanto slower than Dutch, but still pretty fluently. My German is even slower.

I am not able to process spoken French, but I process spoken English, Esperanto and German pretty well. Though, I am good at reading French.

The Cyrillic alphabet (with some differences in Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Serbian, etc.) I can read as fast as the (Latin) alphabet which is used in most European languages. I don't make a transliteration in my head, I can understand the letters immediately.

As i am a narrative thinker when it comes to reading, a combination of narrative and image, i tend to read at the speed of the words in my mind as in a conversation, or even a little slower as listening to the words in my mind and putting a picture to it can get a little tiring after a while, i certainly prefer video or audio forms of learning, have a hard time sometimes reading something that i cant picture to be able to put it into context.

I ticked average, however i think it is more in between average and slow